So I was looking over random election diaries today and I came across these two comments:
Had this been some piece of garbage from Rasmussen, I probably wouldn't have thought twice about it.
A new poll from none other than Rasmussen shows Scott McAdams within 6 points of Teabagger Joe.
And if even Rasmussen is showing this at just 6 points ...
This whole 'Rasmussen has a huge GOP bias' is so ingrained in the mindset here (and on most left-leaning blogs) that people just can't seem to step back and realize how wrong it is. Both here and at Swing State Project, they are put in their own little section at the end of the polls as if they need to be quarantined or should be considered no more than an afterthought. SSS claims it's because they just ran out of ways to say 'Another sucky poll for Democrats' but the way they present the polls is clearly meant to devalue them.
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